Immigration is a hot-button political topic for many Americans. What most people forget is that the heated debate over immigration is almost as old as the United States itself. What is more important to understand is that nearly all... Read More

"The Ratters of Lightning Ridge" chronicles the lives of men and women in Australia’s opal mining industry, providing insight into the country’s rich history and culture. Though tales of many characters are interwoven into this... Read More

English author Gordon Thynne lived in the West Riding of Yorkshire for a few short years during his youth. Those years were so memorable that he has drawn upon them in writing his first novel, "Jem and the War". World War II started... Read More

In "Hoof Prints in the Snow", Jim Hawley, a horse rancher and emergency-room physician, presents a low-key, charming tale of a life spent in the ranching community of Wheatland, Wyoming, where the author lives. His narrator, country... Read More

"Autumn Winds Over Okinawa, 1945", by Pelham Kenneth Mead III, is a book in search of a genre. As presented, it is difficult to tell whether the volume is a memoir or historical fiction. Mead is a retired doctor and the son of the... Read More

This second volume in Giancarlo Gabbrielli’s series about an Italian family, the Lanzis, takes place just after the end of World War II, as those who had fled to the countryside seeking shelter from the violence return home to rebuild... Read More

"Past the Last Island", by Kathleen Flanagan Rollins, is a fascinating return to the beginning of society and a poignant reminder of the power of love. In vivid detail, Rollins depicts a place and time in which modern humans perish, a... Read More

“Defrauder of many, scoundrel to most, traitor to all” is how one minor member of the cast aptly describes the title character of Jack Meyer’s satirical novel, "Alcibiades". Part fact, part fiction, part farce, as the subtitle... Read More